Chiara
Chiara was given to 228 girls in 2025, #1,066 among girls’ names; 5,927 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,840 Americans named Chiara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 8 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chiara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Chiara mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Chiara is “a female given name, equivalent to English Clara or Claire” Its etymology gives the sense “bright” (chiara).
From chiara (“bright”), see there for more.
/ˈkja.ra/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Chiara?
#1,066 among girls’ names, 2025
Chiara rose from #1,853 in 2015 to #1,066 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.06 to 0.14 per 1,000.
228 babies in 2025, the peak
Chiara peaked in 2025, when 228 girls were given it, #1,066 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 219 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 228 | #1,066 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 219 | #1,114 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 202 | #1,188 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 182 | #1,297 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 206 | #1,183 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 166 | #1,328 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 152 | #1,453 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 161 | #1,394 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 137 | #1,593 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 134 | #1,630 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 111 | #1,853 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 131 | #1,636 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 143 | #1,531 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 111 | #1,824 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 134 | #1,613 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 145 | #1,537 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 183 | #1,319 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 155 | #1,505 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 177 | #1,366 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 173 | #1,342 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 183 | #1,239 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 202 | #1,128 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 186 | #1,161 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 203 | #1,053 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 139 | #1,369 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 120 | #1,517 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 122 | #1,432 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 93 | #1,709 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 100 | #1,595 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 98 | #1,584 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 105 | #1,498 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,904 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 59 | #2,215 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 72 | #1,928 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,386 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,100 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,339 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,092 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,202 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 47 | #2,200 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,288 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,232 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,670 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,501 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,621 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,809 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,684 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,579 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 42 | #2,192 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,070 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,916 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,023 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,005 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,195 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,532 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,803 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,813 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,534 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,342 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,935 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,895 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,719 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,590 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,583 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,341 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,541 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chiara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chiara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chiara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chiara, and how old are they?
5,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,927 Americans ever recorded as Chiara. The median Chiara alive today is 19 years old; half are between 8 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 5,552 people named Chiara (5,540 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,701 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 38 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 343 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 895 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,160 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Chiara born?
The states with the most babies named Chiara are Florida, New York and California, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 35 | #520 | 1.4× |
| New York | 34 | #498 | 2.1× |
| California | 27 | #1,004 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 15 | #1,550 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #693 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #679 | 1.7× |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #532 | 1.4× |
| Virginia | 9 | #779 | 0.5× |
| Colorado | 9 | #598 | 0.6× |
| Connecticut | 8 | #355 | 0.6× |
Where Chiara is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chiara is most over-represented in New York: since 1951 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Chiara with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chiara
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Chiara and names like it
- Compare Chiara and SamiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sChiara peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chiara since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Chiara: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Chiara.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Chiara alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.